The truth may indeed be out there. I still want to believe. But for the moment, I am pausing.
Instead, I am returning to the year of my birth. In 1990, David Lynch unleashed Twin Peaks onto an unsuspecting public. I am almost as in the dark as the original audience was. I know a few bits. I know it's weird, I know it was amazing until it suddenly wasn't, and (unlike the original audience) I know it shall return.
So, much like I did for the first series of the X-Files, here are my thoughts on Twin Peaks.
Come, fire walk with me.
Pilot
- I've not even started yet, but the DVD is giving me the option between 'With or Without the Log Lady Intro.' Those are not words I expected to see when I woke up this morning...
- Oh, *that's* where this music is from...
- That's a very specific number of people. But then again, 1990 was an American census year.
- Stunning scenery.
- Well, these all seem like nice normal balanced people.
- It's so 80s. I mean obviously it is, it's from 1990, so everything would be very 80s. Nice reminder that the past isn't easy to compartmentalise.
- Correctly calling out the actor who played Scully's father in the X-Files episode 'Beyond the Sea.' I need to get out more...
- The realisation of the family is utterly heart breaking.
- Was there a person wearing a legitimate tin hat?
- Bobby's hair...
- The Sheriff is called Harry S Truman. No, really...
- Ah, someone crossed the state line. At least that explains why the FBI are involved.
- Special Agent Dale Cooper seems as balanced as the townsfolk...
- They all need speaking to about their ties.
- Who the hell is Diane?!
- Well, it isn't the boyfriend. Otherwise this would have made a terrible series.
- My guess was Swedish, turns out they're Norwegian.
- I tell you what, this Dale Cooper bloke is good.
- The FBI appear to have a good contract with providers of ridiculously effective torches.
- The safety deposit box company seem to have ended up with the moose that Basil Fawlty tried to put on the wall.
- 'Who is the lady with the log?" "We call her the Log Lady." Names apparently aren't their strong point in Twin Peaks...
- The fight scene was only missing a 'POW' to make it 60s Batman.
- I jumped at the end. Flipping heck...
Episode 2
- Confirms my view of Dale Cooper as a nice normal bloke.
- I love the music.
- Seriously, what the hell has this girl got herself into?
- Bloody big clue from a bloody shirt
- Flipping heck, those drapes...
- That fog horn is creepy as anything.
- Damn, Cooper is good...
- How did that fish get in the percolator?!
- Is there anyone in this town living a normal life?!
- Note to self- Mrs Palmer= jumping time.
- Them clothes, so 80s.
- Back when threatening someone with going to Bulgaria was a serious threat...
- Bobby's father is a real bundle of joy
- Cherry pie- I gather this is important...
- Is Dale Cooper going to just flirt with every woman in sight?
- I mean, it's a town based on logs. What is so special about this one?
- "My log saw something that night"- I hope she got an Emmy for that.
- Woah, domestic abuse lobbed in...
- Talk about jumping in your best friend's grave.
- Woah, doctor...
- Did I mention how great the music is?
Episode 3
- I'm confused, is this episode two or three?!
- If they had hipster uncles in 1990, the guy whose just walked in would be one.
- Perfectly capturing the awkwardness of having your other half round to your parents.
- The bar. Quad. The. Actual.
- There's a One-Armed Man. I hear that Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones are in hot pursuit...
- I thought it was a while since the drapes had put in an appearance.
- I recognise the way they all leaned in off their seats from my students.
- I want to start a lesson with Tibet anecdotes...
- Next time I need to find out something, I'm going to lob rocks at a bottle...
- Love the men from the FBI.
- Woah, there's an apostrophe? No one said anything about that...
- Jesus, this became one heck of a lot more confusing very quickly.
- Has Cooper aged? Lucky that, if in 27 years time anyone wants to make a sequel, that'll be really helpful...
- WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?!
- I'm sorry, is this 70s light entertainment, with a pointless confusing dance routine in it??
Episode 4
- Whoever did the decorations in the hotel needs speaking to.
- Dale Cooper really is brilliant (I think I'll make this observation a lot).
- "Suddenly, it was 25 years later." How. Bloody. Convenient.
- Good thing he can't remember who the killer is, would have made a crap series if he did.
- The pathologist got what he deserved...
- Oh my goodness, there's a TV series in a TV series, how very Hamlet.
- But for all the pathologist is not pleasant, he is Good.
- At least this woman's life revolves around more than the bloody runners.
- Of course there are secret tunnels. Why wouldn't there be secret tunnels...
- Funerals are horrible, there’s just no getting away from it.
- Bobby is really showing himself to be a lovely, pleasant young fellow.
- But maybe in his anger, he has a point to make…
- Overall, I think we can conclude the funeral went swimmingly…
- He is very specific with his pie requirements.
- It’s only taken till this episode before someone mentioned a secret society dedicated to fighting the totally mental goings on in the forest. Surely that borders on obstruction of justice?
- And bugging too, honestly the felonies these people are racking up is horrendous.
- Add to that a safe, a secret bookcase, and a secret writing desk.
- I do love a good bit of Native American philosophy.
- But I feel it won’t help a bit in solving what on Earth is going on here.
Episode 5
- Having consulted Wikipedia, the fifth episode is apparently Episode 4. I mean, seriously, even the episode structure is confusing...
- Well the doctor doesn't seem suspicious in the least.
- Why does the doctor have two glasses lenses that are different colours?!
- I'm glad that Cooper is on Harry Truman's side.
- The one-armed man has been found. Tommy-Lee Jones is in hot pursuit.
- THE ONE-ARMED MAN'S NAME IS GERRARD.
- The background noises are so strange. It's really hard to explain why, they just are.
- Hank bears more than a passing resemblance to Jorah Mormont.
- There's an alpaca. Why is there an alpaca?
- Bobby is definitely in way over his head.
- Andy definitely needs some training on that gun of his...
- Alphabetically by pet is a terrible way of organising files.
- That there is a mobile phone.
- Why are they so determined to get Scandinavians into Washington state?!
- It has also taken until this episode for a firearm to be drawn. Good stuff.
- They are clearly building towards a climax. Thing is, I know there isn't one yet.
- Much like any woods in the X-Files, no one should go into them at night.
- WHAT IS THAT ANIMAL ON THE WALL?!
- Someone seriously needs to talk to them about taxidermy.
- Dominoes. Because what I really wanted was another complex layer of Plot.
Episode 6
- Some real humanity shown by Audrey and Cooper from the off.
- Lucy! Long time, no see.
- Solid encyclopaedia use...
- Are they questioning the bird?! (Yes, they are...)
- Ah yes, the tape.
- I'm guessing the department store manager is in on all this too, then?
- I really hope the TV show within a TV show isn't important, its lost me...
- Can you use FBI money to gamble with for investigative purposes?
- Cooper is onto Josey, isn't he?
- THAT FOG HORN.
- And the bloody bird as well?
- Their evidence is a tape recording of a bird recounting the murder; I will enjoy watching that stand up in court.
- Their cover identities are Barney and Fred. No, really...
- Well, One Eyed Jack's is the place to be tonight...
Episode 7
- What are the Log Lady intros actually for?!
- Oh yeah, the Doctor's office, forgot about him...
- Cooper still has his Clark Kent glasses on.
- Good shot Andy.
- Oh Shelly, that's not good...
- Real sense of events moving, after weeks of slow pace.
- Josey hasn't been a good girl...
- Andy and Lucy are adorable.
- Well, *that* announcement was unexpected...
- To say that shit is going down in this episode is the understatement of the 90s...
- Well now the TV series in the TV series makes a bit more sense at least.
- I mean, between the murdering, the arson, the running around, this night in Twin Peaks is completly manic...
- Revising an earlier statement, to say that shit is going down in this episode is the understatement of the 20th century...
- WHAT A CLIFFHANGER!!!
Overall... I'm hooked. How you could watch it rise to a cliffhanger like that, and then decide "Nah, not for me,' I cannot imagine. Looks like my summer watching is sorted...
I mean, what in the name of God is that doing there...
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